Dear Sirs,
Mr Veikko Hara of Sonera Corporation, Finland will attend the next TC6
meeting that will take place in Paris on May 13-14. Could you kindly
send me the invitation as well as the hotel information so I can make
the reservations for Mr Veikko Hara as well as for Mr Olli Martikainen.
Kindly send the information as soon as possible.
I am Mr Hara's assistant so please send the information to my e-mail or
fax +358-2040-54055.
Yours sincerely,
Katariina Ikävalko
Sonera Coporation/Research
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*** LAST CALL ***
CALL FOR PAPERS
JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
Special Issue on
Web-Based Management
The use of Web technologies in network, systems, application and service
management--also known as Web-based management--has attracted a lot of
attention in the recent years. In the IP world, all major network management
platform vendors are migrating toward Web-based graphical user interfaces.
Current suggestions include to redesign entirely the managers and agents
using Java, take advantage of distributed object-oriented technologies such
as CORBA and Java RMI, base the manager-to-agent communication on HTTP, or
use XML to format and structure management data. Even in the OSI world,
especially for telecommunication switches, more and more vendors are turning
to solutions integrating CORBA and Java. What are the opportunities of Web
technologies in these two worlds? What are the principles behind the design
of Web-based management systems? How can we make such systems reliable and
scalable? What are their limitations? What are the advantages and
disadvantages of using HTTP, applets, servlets, RMI, JDBC, etc. in
management applications? Topics of interest for this special issue include,
but are not limited to, the following:
* Web technologies in network, systems, service and application
management
* Information models in support of Web-based management (semantics)
* Distributed computing for Web-based management applications
* Web technologies as facilitators of integrated management
* New designs for Web-based managers and agents
* Web-based communication between managers and agents
* How to format, encode and represent management data in transit
(agent/manager, manager/manager)
* Techniques to efficiently save and retrieve management data to/from
persistent storage (e.g. how to store time series?)
* Scalability, efficiency and reliability of Web-based management
* Performance analysis of Web-based management
* Case studies of Web-based management systems
* Experiences with commercial Web-based management platforms
Instructions to Contributors:
We invite prospective authors to submit high quality papers via email to one
of the guest editors, depending on their geographic zone. Only electronic
submissions are acceptable. Please prepare the manuscripts according to the
Instructions to Contributors which can be found in any copy of the Journal,
or by visiting the JNSM Web site at <http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm/>.
Guest Editors:
Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin
Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology, Lausanne Nikos Anerousis
(EPFL) VoiceMate.com
DSC-ICA 215 W. 95th St., Ste. 10M
1015 Lausanne New York, NY 10025
Switzerland USA
Email: jp.martin-flatin(a)ieee.org Email: nikos(a)voicemate.com
Schedule:
Manuscript due: April 30, 2000
Notification of Acceptance: July 31, 2000
Final Manuscript due: Sep. 30, 2000
Publication Date: 1st Quarter 2001
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(First advertised on July 29, 1999)
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Dear WG chairmen,
I need to receive the WG reports for the Paris TC6 meeting until May 3
to insert them in the meeting documents.
Best regards
Augusto Casaca
Dear TC6 members,
The next TC6 meeting will take place in Paris, on May 13 and 14. The
meeting will start on the 13th (Saturday) in early afternoon (time to be
indicated later) and end on the 14th (Sunday) at 18.00.
The meeting will be followed by the Networking'2000 Conference, which I
encourage you to attend.
The formal meeting invitation together with hotel information should be
sent to you by Samir Tohme soon.
Best regards
Augusto Casaca
The United Kingdom is changing its telephone numbers, again!
There's a quick summary below and a reference point for further details
Peter Radford
The main changes affect the fixed network telephone numbers in areas that
are running out of numbers; however the opportunity is being taken to
introduce other changes to make the numbering scheme more easily
understandable. These other changes affect mobile numbers and special rate
and premium rate services; of these, only the mobile number changes are
discussed below.
The fixed network changes affect numbers in Cardiff, Coventry, London (both
Inner and Outer London), Portsmouth, Southampton and the whole of Northern
Ireland. All these areas will have numbers that, from outside the UK, will
now begin +44 2X followed by an 8-digit local number. For example, London
numbers will now begin +44 20. Those (Inner London) numbers which were +44
171 XXX XXXX will become +44 20 7XXX XXXX, with 7XXX XXXX being the new
local number; similarly, those (Outer London) numbers which were +44 181 YYY
YYYY will become +44 20 8YYY YYYY. The different area codes for Inner and
Outer London disappear. Changes for the other areas are detailed in
www.numberchange.org. (Note that the Portsmouth and Southampton areas are
merged behind one area code, as are all the old Northern Ireland areas.)
The new local numbers take effect on 22nd April but you can use the full
numbers now, the old geographic area codes and numbers can be used until
later this summer.
The mobile number changes are part of the move to re-organise the numbering
scheme, so that +44 7 will denote what OFTEL, the UK Regulator, calls "Find
Me Anywhere numbers" (personal numbers, mobiles and pagers). Any existing
mobile or pager number that does not begin +44 7 is being changed. In a few
cases, an extra digit is inserted (so that +44 860 XXXXXX becomes +44 7860
XXXXXX). In other cases, the change is not quite as simple (for example, +44
370 XXXXXX becomes +44 7770 XXXXXX) and look up tables (see below) must be
used to determine the new numbers.
The new numbers can all be used now; the old mobile numbers will stop
working at the end of April next year.
If you need to find a new number, the www.numberchange.org web-site offers a
number conversion facility.
Peter Radford
Logica
Telecoms Solutions
telephone +44 (0) 20 7446 1281
http://www.logica.com/